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Jon Voight, Angelina Jolie's dad has been keeping an eye on his little girl. "She looks very happy now," Voight, 69, told People Thursday night. And "very heavy!" he added when asked what he thought of Jolie's pregnant pictures from the Cannes Film Festival. "She looks...

Pax and Maddox need to enjoy every moment they have in the bathroom while they still can. They are about to double the number of sisters they have and life will never be the same. Of course it will be better, but I'm serious about that bathroom thing. Star Magazine is reporting that Angelina Jolie...

For anyone who thought only women in episodes of "Lost" can get pregnant after battling cancer, here is some encouraging news. A story on CNN.com says that more cancer survivors are not only overcoming the disease, but conceiving and having children. The ability to get pregnant while in remission...

Sometimes I wonder why I get so pissy about stuff when everybody does it, but I do. Take the diet/nutrition book, "Eat This, Not That" now in a pregnancy edition . It's pimped on the Today site right now. So the original, non-pregnancy version of the book was all over Today and msnbc, three...

I saw this article from Fox News on preventing stretch marks , and paused for a second. Tip number one is, "Using Retin A Cream (vitamin A) at the inception of pregnancy, a weight-building program or a growth spurt is essential to keep the skin hydrated and moisturized." Now, I sort of remembered...

Impossible indeed! She's a miracle worker! Halle Berry is claiming she has managed to wean herself off of insulin and drop from Type 1 diabeties, to Type 2. The trouble with this claim is that it's impossible to do. Type 1 Diabeties means your pancreas is not able to ever recover to normal again...

If you are pregnant, you can and should eat fish . So says a nonprofit group, National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition, and we actually reported the same thing a while back. Some women give up fish out of mercury fear, but the recommended guidelines have been no more than 12 ounces a week for...

Why hello, as if it isn't yet another study telling us we're doing something wrong when we're healthy. Um, Study-Making People? Can you all please get on board with one another? Please? Please? Yeah, because for years they've been telling us that high cholesterol = BAD and low cholesterol...

Okay. Say you're pregnant, pretty pregnant but it's not quite a good hatching time yet, and you go into labor. Not the story we hope for, but it happens, right? And then you get drugs that stop the labor while everyone watches you like a lab rat under a microscope to see if labor starts up again. The...

I think we're pretty clear now on the fact that not every pregnancy is rosy. Lots of moms-to-be have more than their share of prenatal troubles, not the least of which can be a troubling increase in symptoms of depression. Hey, with all those hormones floating around, it's no wonder, right? The enormous...